Monroe (given name)
Monroe is a unisex given name, a transferred use of the surname.
Men
- Monroe Althouse, American composer and bandmaster
- Monroe Baker, American politician, one of the first, possibly the first, African-American mayors in the United States
- Monroe Beardsley, American philosopher
- Monroe D. Donsker, American mathematician and a professor
- Monroe Evans, first Jewish mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States
- Monroe Hayward, American politician and senator
- Monroe Heath, American politician, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Monroe Fein, US Navy lieutenant and captain of the Altalena in the 1948 Altalena Affair
- Monroe Freeling, American football player
- Monroe Karmin, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Monroe H. Kulp, American politician
- Monroe Alpheus Majors, American physician, writer and civil rights activist
- Monroe G. McKay, United States circuit judge
- Monroe Morton, African-American businessperson and postmaster
- Monroe Jackson Rathbone II, American businessman, chairman, president, and CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey
- Monroe M. Redden, American politician
- Monroe Rosenfeld, American songwriter and journalist
- Monroe M. Shipe, American real estate developer and streetcar network operator
- Monroe Work, sociologist and publisher including of the ''Negro Yearbook''
Women
- Monroe Cannon, daughter of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon
Fictional characters
- Monroe Ficus, in the American sitcom Too Close for Comfort
- Monroe Stahr, protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel The Last Tycoon
- Monroe, in the American television series Grimm
- Monroe, in the American animated television series The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
- Monroe, main character of William Wray's comic strip Monroe, published in Mad magazine